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Earlier this year, the BBC unearthed some startling documents in the British National Archives. The papers, which dated back to the Suez crisis in 1956, documented a proposal by Guy Mollet, France's Socialist Prime Minister of the time, to create a union between France and Great Britain. When his British counterpart, the Conservative Anthony Eden, flatly rejected the idea, Mollet suggested that France could instead become a member of the British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Time Has Come | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

Nature shows are meant to be educational, but face it: we watch them to ogle wild places and cool animals, preferably eating other cool animals. We want to be awed. This 11-episode BBC DVD set is organized by ecosystem, from deserts to the poles, and the $25 million budget secured such awe-inspiring sights as a deep-sea light show by an electrified vampire squid. It's a breathtaking window on the earth's vastness and most secret corners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheat Sheet | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Sources: Christian Science Monitor; Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee; China Daily; Financial Times; BBC; Jupiter Research; Pew Research Center for the People and the Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 30, 2007 | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

Even in the volatile Gaza Strip, hostage taking had at least one firm rule. Journalists were released quickly, usually with tea and apologies. Those customs seem to have been thrown out with the case of respected BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, 44, grabbed by gunmen in Gaza on March 12. So far, it is not clear why the broadcast journalist was kidnapped. No demands have been forthcoming, only a harrowing and probably false communiqué from a group calling itself the Tawheed and Jihad Brigades, claiming that Johnston had been executed--revenge, it intimated, for the fate of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Spotlight: The Kidnappers' Code | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...came to Britain from Grenada in the '50s, hopes his success will stoke new interest among ethnic groups that have long steered clear of Formula One. "People that can relate to [me] will see that it's possible and also try to get into the sport," he told the bbc. Inspired by Hamilton's youth, good looks and wholesome image, marketers are likely to get equally fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Built for Speed | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

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